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There Are No Saints by Sophie Lark
4.0
challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I adore Sophie Lark's books, they are so easy to read and follow. I saw this on KU and loved the title so I decided I had to start reading it, and it was so good. I loved Mara and Cole, and I cannot wait to finish reading their story in book 2 of this duet. I adore dark romance and this hit a spot I was not getting with normal romance and fantasy books.

Quotes
- “An eternity of boredom sounds worse than death. And heaven sounds pretty fucking boring.”
- “Absolutely I do. He disrespected you. Put his hands on you. I’d kill him for much less.”
- “She’s more twisted than I ever dared dream.”
- “And I realize . . . she’s everything I dreamed of and more. More vengeful. More strategic. More effective. More fucked up.”
- “Sometimes you have to kill what you love.”
- “I do not love men: I love what devours them. That actually makes me laugh. I haven’t laughed in some time.”
- “My desire to bring Mara there shows me how far this obsession has grown. Bringing her into my house is like bringing her inside my own body. A far more intimate act than simply fucking her .”
- “I don’t want to be taken care of,” she says. “I want to be seen.”
- “If I could sculpt her exactly like this, it would be my greatest work.”
- “The pain enhances the pleasure, and the pleasure enhances the pain.”

Tropes:
- Serial Killer 
- Artist FMC and MMC
- FMC hates MMC at first
- Stalker MMC
- Obsessive MMC